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Posterity demands from time to time that we dust off unsolicited and unimaginable past facts. In this chapter in time we thought it would be intriguing to our readers to review some of the famous brands we still see and use in all segments of industrial enterprise. People often choose to buy from brands that have been around for ages …
July 2020 “Niggers in the White House” is a poem that was published in newspapers around the United States between 1901 and 1903. The poem was written in reaction to an October 1901 White House dinner hosted by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, who had invited Booker T. Washington—an African-American presidential adviser—as a guest. The poem reappeared in 1929 after First …
June 27, 2020 AM Another law enforcement agency has fired several of its officers because of publicly stated racial animus targeting Blacks. Wilmington, North Carolina continues to adopt a perpetual prerogative which imposes generational racial disparities embedded into legacy social systems and authoritative branches.More on the city’s racist borne, bloody history later. Michael ‘Kevin’ Piner, James ‘Brian’ Gilmore, and Jessie …
JUNE 2020 Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become …
After at least 120 years of attempts to make lynching a federal crime, it appears the country is closer to having such a law. Many years ago Alvin Sykes, a Kansas City civil rights activist, embarked on a mission to find justice for Emmett Till. Sykes is a classic activist working tirelessly on whatever challenges requiring his energetic research and …
The time has again arrived for African-American communities and others, that celebrate the culture to re-energize the dedication propelling the tenets of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is a seven-day, non-religious holiday observed in the US, meant to honor African Americans’ ancestral roots. The celebration lasts until January 1, but the Kwanzaa mindset is an actionable set of on-going conscious priorities. The name …
Did you ever wonder if the Greenwood district of Tulsa was the only prosperous African-American community? We have taken the time to search and compile the history of other such enclaves. The historical facts unveil a minimum of 7 additional African-American communities that were thriving and self-determined to succeed and succeed they did. The following revelations illustrate Black people can …
